Karine Lefeuvre, Professor of Law and Ethics and Deputy Dean of the Department of Human and Social Sciences at EHESP School of Public Health, Member of the French National Committee of Ethics (Comité consultatif national d’éthique CCNE)

Dr. Robert Klitzman, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health and Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University

Dr. Robert Klitzman is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health and the Director of the Online and In-person Masters of Bioethics Programs at Columbia University. He co-founded and for five years co-directed the Center for Bioethics, and for 10 years directed the Ethics and Policy Core of the HIV Center. He has conducted research and written about a variety of ethical issues in medicine and public health to promote public and professional education concerning these issues. He has written eight books and authored or co-authored over 120 articles, drawing on qualitative as well as quantitative methodologies. His work has appeared in Journal of the American Medical Association, Science, and elsewhere, and also has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, The Nation, and other publications. He has received several awards for his work, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Aaron Diamond Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund. He is a gubernatorial appointee to the NY State Stem Cell Commission, and a member of the Research Ethics Advisory Panel of the US Department of Defense. He has been interviewed about these issues widely by the media, including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, NPR, PBS, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, the BBC and others.

R.Klitzman has received numerous awards for his work, including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Aaron Diamond Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is a member of the Empire State Stem Cell Commission, and served on the U.S. Department of Defense’s Research Ethics Advisory Panel. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a regular contributor to the New York Times and CNN.

His books include When Doctors Become Patients, A Year-Long Night: Tales of a Medical Internship, In a House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming a Psychiatrist, Being Positive: The Lives of Men and Women With HIV, The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals and Mad Cow Disease, Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS (with Ronald Bayer), Am I My Genes? Confronting Fate and Other Genetic Journeys, and The Ethics Police?: The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe.

rlk2@columbia.edu

Karine Lefeuvre is Professor of Law and Ethics of the protection of vulnerable people and Deputy Dean of the Department of Human and Social Sciences at EHESP French School of Public Health. She’s Member of the French National Committee of Ethics (Comité Consultatif National d’Ethique CCNE), and of two territorial groups of Ethics (In Britanny, Espace de Réflexion Ethique de Bretagne EREB; Espace de Réflexion Ethique Age et Mémoire EREAM, Rennes)

She has written and coordinated books on the issue of the protection of vulnerable people (place and rights of families and caregivers, Issue of Interest of the person, Right of patients in end of life and a future books on Ethics and protection of vulnerable people). She also works on the topics of Health Democracy. She’s member of the Council of Family, Childhood and Age (Haut Conseil de la famille, de l’enfance et de l’âge) and of the National Commission of Well and Mistreatment. She takes part of the Scientific Council of the National Council of the French national founding Agency for Autonomy (Caisse nationale de solidarité pour l’autonomie, CNSA). She had been twice in the Mailman School of Public Health and in different hospitals in New-York for Study visit on the issue of Ethics (2016,2018).